Today's Blind Items – Kindness

This foreign born B list mostly movie actor is an Academy Award winner/nominee and is loved by lots of women

. Lots. Very attractive guy. He is also very generous. He was flying this past week and noticed a bunch of military people waiting to board his flight. He asked about first class seats for the personnel and our actor bought the four available first class seats and gave up the two he had. For the rest of the personnel that didn't fly first class he bought them unlimited drinks and bought them all food before they got on the plane. His total bill for everything was about $20K but the memories he provided for the troops will last a lifetime.

Un how does he know those soldiers werent pogs instead of grunts. Grunts are real soldiers. Pogs are paper pushers that reap all the benefits grunts should get cause of all the time they have on their hands.

Anyhow this is a non US citizen doing this for American military personnel? If so that makes it even better considering how most military aren't treated that well here by us and we have to be constantly reminded to just thank them for their sacrifice.

Taxpayers pay burger flipping wages to suckers-turned-psychos to serve as security service to taxpayer funded privatized Haliburton employees who make many times over their military counterparts, who in turn serve as security for privatized Big Oil employees whose sole job it is to exploit the region for it's natural resources and then sell it back to the duped taxpayers who paid to retrieve it in the first place. I find it bizarre so many of us [STILL!] wave the little made-in-China American flags and call these poor bastards heroes.

Whoever this actor is, good on him. Two of my three sons have served. Both did combat tours. One is now out, having served his hitch, and is attending university. The other is career and is now stateside.

Go light a candle if you think it will help. I mean, that's ultimately the extent of your twisted brand of support of the troops, right?

We just have to agree to disagree. My support is ending the war and bringing them home. Where in the Constitution does it demand we shed blood to protect the profits of billionaires? Talk about a pound of flesh.. And you're all for it! Yikes.

I need a heroI'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the nightHe's gotta be strongAnd he's gotta be fastAnd he's gotta be fresh from the fightI need a heroI'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning lightHe's gotta be sureAnd it's gotta be soonAnd he's gotta be larger than life

Going by Enty's hints, and weeding out the older winners/nominees, that leaves us with Colin Firth, Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Russell Crowe and Daniel Day-Lewis. Possibly Christoph Waltz, who has won the two times he was nominated. Or Benicio del Toro, if Enty considers Puerto Rico foreign. 😉

@SueRH.. I think we all agree the physical fitness aspects of boot camp are pretty incredible. It's the brainwashing that leaves the bad aftertaste. Little wonder they recruit them as soon as they are old enough to carry a weapon — and young enough to not ask any questions.

@Shorty.. But you truly are living in some kind of armchair martyr's time warp if you believe I am speaking my mind because of the actions of anyone alive in this world today. If anything I am speaking my mind in spite of it.

"ephemerina said…Going by Enty's hints, and weeding out the older winners/nominees, that leaves us with Colin Firth, Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Russell Crowe and Daniel Day-Lewis. Possibly Christoph Waltz, who has won the two times he was nominated. Or Benicio del Toro, if Enty considers Puerto Rico foreign. ;)"

If those are the chances, keep out bardem. He is used to HATE all non-communist/islamic armies. He is a male version of aemish although I seriously doubt he can write.Benicio del Toro is his soft version.Colin Firth is largely liberal (American way) and I doubt he would hang out with American soldiers.Daniel Day Lewis is crazy enough to party with anyone that way (the BI says he invited them to drinks and shared a lot of stories), he is my option.

aemish, stating and arguing in support of an untenable and deliberately controversial statement for no other purpose than to cause conflict in an Internet discussion is the very definition of trolling.

Calling a troll a troll is no more trolling than calling a bigot a bigot is bigotry.

JAS that is the STUPIDEST thing I have EVER heard. Is everyone suppose to have one opinion and spend their time saying "your so right" with each other? wtf. What is the point of having any discussion about anything than?

@Jonathan.. I wouldn't presume to know what individual readers find controversial. Pretty ridiculous for you to suggest it is my position that is untenable when you've yet to supply anything of substance to support your alleged point of view.

@Derek.. I don't know where he comes up with these definitions of trolls, but it's pretty immature. It's like he's following me around for no other purpose than to finger wag like some kind of wannabe hall monitor or somehting.

There's nothing wrong with showing kindness to others. It makes me feel good and them too! It doesn't have to cost big bucks to make someone's day, but hell if you have it…why not! There should be no debate…its not like the actor helped out Kim Jong-un…

While I completely agree with your second paragraph there, aemish, I still 100% support the troops on the ground who are, ultimately, just following orders. No, They never should have been there, but they are, and you dare to brand them all as psychos and murderers? You're not there, you're not dealing with the hell they're going thru every day. You need to sit down and shut up, because you sound like a fool, and the (occasional) good point you make is completely drowned out by the stupidity.

Personally I don't think that just because we find a known commenter's opinion abhorrent they should be labeled a troll.

And I don't agree with her opinion. My sister and several others in my family are members of the military (sis did 23 years)and they're not treated extremely well by our gov'mt either. However, Aemish is still allowed to have her say however wrong I MAY feel it to be.

THANK YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE. You are a stand-up person who cares about others, and i hope you know that we appreciate you.

I am appreciative of those who have decided to be of value for whatever purpose our country has deemed the most valuable goals. Sometimes that's debatable, but these people uphold their pledge, no matter what.

I don't have a family member in the military any longer, but the most important gesture to me is that this celebrity – despite their obvious wealth and good fortune – have chosen to acknowledge others that have served a valuable purpose TOWARDS PEACE, and the world as a whole.

Lazyday, There was a funny pun like 'the house was lousey,' (that was really paraphrased … Sorry, Dorothy! ), and another along the lines of 'a lady with all the poise of the sphinx, but alas none of the mystery.' That last one could be used quite nicely for many a one-dimensional celebrity!

Although I must say all this so-called controversy is completely lost on me. I come from a military family too. Big whoop. Taxpayer ignorance and wasted tax dollars of satanic proportions are not mutually exclusive. I think it's pretty evident they go hand in hand.

It annoys me when people play the sympathy/"offended" card because some of some enlisted relative. But whatevs.

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